Author Bios

Angela Fichter is a creative and writer from San Francisco covering all things culture.  

Ethan Earle is a project manager for the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung -- New York Office. Follow him on Twitter at @EthanEarle.

Cathleen Willging is an adjunct associate professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico.

Snell-Rood is a medical anthropologist examining how varied social relationships contribute to mental health and overall wellbeing. Focusing particularly on women living in poverty, she has conducted ethnographic and …

Lucy Duncan serves as director of friends relations for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). She has been a storyteller for 20 years and has worked with Quaker meetings …

Eve Ottenberg is a journalist who has reviewed books for The New York Times Book Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New …

Mary Claire Blakeman is a former staffer for Pacific News Service, New America Media's parent news organization. She has written for such news media as Mother Jones, Ms., The …

Nicole Hallett is an assistant clinical professor of law at the University at Buffalo, the state university of New York. Hallett directs the Community Justice Clinic, which represents low-wage …

Paul Blest is a freelance writer based in Raleigh, North Carolina. His work has appeared in Vice, Salon, Noisey, New Republic, Indy Week and Deadspin. Follow him on Twitter: …

Lavette Mayes is a Chicago Community Bond Fund volunteer, community advocate and mother of two. In 2014 and 2015, Lavette was detained for 14 months in Cook County Jail because …